Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 18:24:45 -0800 From: "Camille Zavala" <litperl@hotmail.com> To: tg@melaten.rwth-aachen.de Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: teTeX port (Re: bug in noweb 2.9a port under 4.5-stable) Message-ID: <F3tHr6TmTTSuaMggn5T000095c5@hotmail.com>
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a local texmf tree would be a Right Decision.
my perspective is from the end user's viewpoint. if a normal user installs
teTeX and then noweb, he/she would expect the noweb macros to be installed
into the existing TeX system. i solved my problem with a symlink in the
latex directory.
couldn't the installation script do a -d test at post-install time, then
copy or link the files into the right directory? i'm thinking of something
like:
if [ -d $tetex_directory ]
then ln -s $noweb_tex_macros $tetex_directory/noweb
elif [ -d $plain_tex_directory ]
then ln -s $noweb_tex_macros $plain_tex_directory/noweb
fi
freebsd seems to offer two ports of tex: teTeX and tex-3.14159. but the
tex port doesn't offer LaTeX, so noweb users wouldn't have that. if you're
getting noweb as a port, teTeX is the only game in town.
/cdz
p.s. i never saw texconfig until i reinstalled teTeX yesterday (or whenever
it was) -- and i've used freebsd since 3.1 days. i guess i just never paid
attention. i'm probably a typical user, just installing stuff but not
reading anything except the last line.
>From: Thomas Gellekum <tg@melaten.rwth-aachen.de>
>To: "Camille Zavala" <litperl@hotmail.com>
>CC: ports@FreeBSD.org
>Subject: teTeX port (Re: bug in noweb 2.9a port under 4.5-stable)
>Date: 05 Apr 2002 13:15:30 +0200
>
>I've taken Norman off the Cc: line, this is no longer a noweb issue
>per se.
>
>"Camille Zavala" <litperl@hotmail.com> writes:
>
> > >Well, your noweb-2.9a-bug.nw works fine for me (teTeX, noweb-2.10a
> > >(I've upgraded the port, BTW), icon-9.4.0).
> >
> > good news! well, sorta. i deinstalled and then reinstalled but get a
> > latex error because it can't find noweb.sty. here's what i did:
>[...]
> > sure enough, there's no noweb.sty file anywhere in the
> > /usr/local/share/texmf tree. noweb's pkg-plist file says it's in
> > {/usr/local/]share/noweb/tex/noweb.sty, but tetex wants it to be in
> > /usr/local/share/texmf somewhere by default.
> >
> > so there's still a bug in the noweb installation: the noweb.sty and
> > nwmac.tex files don't get hooked into the local texmf directory tree.
>
>The noweb port doesn't depend on teTeX by default, and I didn't want
>to install noweb's macro files into the nonexistent texmf/ tree. I've
>always relied on the users to do it themselves. However, diskspace is
>cheap nowadays, so I could add the dependency.
>
>I'd like another change in the teTeX port first, though: I want to
>enable support for a `local' texmf tree (TEXMFLOCAL variable in
>texmf.cnf), so additions like noweb.sty could be put somewhere below
>${PREFIX}/share/texmf.local and won't clutter the distributed texmf/.
>
>This will also allow us to install newer versions of other (La)TeX,
>BibTeX, etc. packages without clobbering the original teTeX
>tree. Putting the newer stuff directly into texmf/ will do all kinds
>of bad things to FreeBSD's package handling tools.
>
>Opinions?
>
>tg
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